Last weekend I went to my favorite hardwood dealer and purchased the majority of my lumber for the Build Challenge:
In this picture we have:
- 4/4 & 8/4 Walnut: The 8/4 walnut will be used for the center of the top and the curved sides of the center drawer assembly. The 4/4 walnut will be used for the center drawer front and shelf
- 4/4 Maple: This maple will be used for the outer drawer assemblies
- 4/4 Poplar: This poplar will be used for the drawer boxes and supports
- 8/4 Purpleheart: This is easily my favorite board I bought that Saturday. I just love purpleheart, especially an 8/4 slab such as this. This board will become the leg assemblies.
Unfortunately, Vienna Hardwoods didn’t have much in the way of curly maple and not a whole lot of 8/4 maple in general. This led me to what is becoming my second favorite hardwood dealer, Northland Forest Products. The only thing keeping them from being my favorite is their lack of exotic species (did you see that slab of purpleheart?!?).
In their stack of “8/4 Curly Soft Maple” I was able to find this beauty:
Check out the curl on this baby:
I only really needed about half of the board for this project, but I couldn’t bring myself to ask them to cut it in half. I’ll just have to think of some other project to make from that beauty!
Well done. Your lumber certainly outdoes 10 board feet of walnut I bought for my challenge entry.
Good luck with the build.
Don’t worry – all of it won’t get used in this project. With a couple of these, I didn’t feel like asking the dealer to cut off a small percentage, so I just bought the whole board.
Hey Steve….been wondering how you were doing—-wanted to ask—-but didn’t want to bother you.
Very cool —-did you buy the curly maple as curly or did you dig around and come up big out of the standard maple pile.
Pretty exciting……..Neil
The board was on a rack marked curly, so no “luck” with that. Although, finding figured maple in the regular stacks seems to be happening (ar at least getting reported) more often lately.
And you’re not interrupting – feel free to drop me a line whenever.
I miss buying lumber. I could dig through the QS white oak all day long. Looks like you scored some good lumber. Congrats.